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3D DWF Publishing

 

AutoCAD 2008 User's Guide > Plot and Publish Drawings > Publish Drawings > 

Set Publish Options

Concept

Procedure

Quick Reference

You can set options for publishing, such as output file location, DWF type, multisheet DWF name options, DWF security (password protection), and whether or not to include layer information. You can also decide what types of information to reveal in your published DWF files.

You can include the following types of metadata:

• Sheet set properties (must publish using the Sheet Set Manager)
• Sheet properties (must publish using the Sheet Set Manager)
• Block standard properties and block custom properties and attributes
• Properties contained in custom objects

You use a block template (BLK) file to determine which blocks and properties to include in your published DWF file. You use the Block Template dialog box to create or modify the settings of a block template (BLK) file. You can also use BLK files created with the Attribute Extraction wizard.

When you change settings in the Publish Options dialog box, you can save the settings to the Drawing Set Descriptions (DSD) file to reuse the next time you publish drawings. You can also save them to just the DSD file.